REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - HEZEKIAH GRANT

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Hezekiah Grant

On this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and 
thirty two, personally before the Hon. William P. Walker, Judge of the Court of 
Probate, now sitting at Great Barrington in & for said County, Hezekiah Grant, a 
resident of Great Barrington in the County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts 
aged sixty nine years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his 
oath make the following declaration, in order, to obtain the benefits of the 
pensions made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, -That he enlisted in 
the Army of the United States in the year 1781, with Capt. Olmstead and served 
in the third Regiment of the Connecticut Militia, under the following named 
officers, Col. Samuel B. Webb (does not recollect the names of the other field 
officers), Capt. Olmstead, Lieut Robinson and Ensigh Dimmick (Christian names 
not recollected) the said Lieut Robinson was also adjutant or acting adjutant of 
said Regt -That he enlisted in the company commanded by Capt. Olmstead in said 
Regt in the month of May 1781 for six months, at the expiration of which term, 
he was detained in service in the Company and Regt. and did duty there in this 
[illegible] the term of two months was discharged in February 1782, the precise 
day when he entered and left said service is not recollected, the discharge he 
received being lost. He resided when he entered the service in East Windsor, 
County of Hartford & State of Connecticut. He marched from Hartford with eleven 
other recruits to Litchfield, thence to Danbury -thence to White Plains in the 
state of New York -thence to within about three miles of Dobbs Ferry on the 
Hudson River when he joined his Regiment -the Company to which he belonged was 
the second company in said Regt. -from said Ferry he marched to Gallows Hill, 
north of D. Ferry -from said hill he marched to the Highlands where he lay on 
the East side of said River until February 1782 when he was duly discharged (he 
has lost his discharge). He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a 
pension or annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on 
the pension roll of any agency in any state. Sworn to and subscribed this day & 
year aforesaid.

[signed by Hezekiah Grant before W. P. Walker, Probate]

On this 25th day of December 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the 
Court of Probate for the District of East Windsor now sitting David Grant a 
resident of said East Windsor aged 76 years a person of veracity and made solemn 
oath -That he is well acquainted with Hezekiah Grant a resident of Great 
Barrington and the county of Berkshire and state of Massachusetts an applicant 
for a pension under the pension act of June 7th 1832. -That in the month of May 
1781 said Hezekiah Grant enlisted into the service of the United States and 
belonged to a Regiment in the Connecticut militia commanded by Col. Webb of 
Wethersfield of Connecticut. -That said Hezekiah Grant was at this time a 
resident of East Windsor. -That he went with him when he left home as far as 
East Hartford and assisted in carrying his pack. About three months after he 
(the deponent) was drafted into the militia was sent to West Point and was in 
the service there three months and while there went to Gallows Hill two or three 
times and saw said Hezekiah Grant in service there. -And that said Hezekiah 
Grant returned home in the month of February 1782.
[signed by David Grant, X, his mark, before Edgar Bissell, Clerk of the Court of 
Probate for the District of East Windsor]

Certificate of Pension issuded the 6 day of Apr 1833 and sent to [illegible] 
arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $40, semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept $10.